E-MailRelay Change Log

2.5.2 -> 2.6

• New --log-format option (eg. --log-format=address,port).
• New --server-smtp-config nostrictparsing option to allow missing RCPT-TO angle brackets.
• The SMTP server converts incoming e-mail addresses to RFC-5890 A-labels by default (see NEWS).
• The mx: filter accepts an IP address in the envelope forward-to field, not just a domain name.
• Pop-by-name sub-directories are automatically created if necessary.
• The --forward-to domain names can be UTF-8.
• Windows configuration files always use UTF-8 character encoding.
• The Windows installer puts options in emailrelay.cfg, not emailrelay-start.bat.
• The Windows service wrapper will read emailrelay.cfg if there is no batch file.
• The SMTP client EHLO parameter is controlled by --domain (as in v2.3) but IP address if not a FQDN.
• The emailrelay-submit utility can parse recipient addresses out of content headers.
• On Windows --no-daemon is deprecated in favour of --show=window.
• The Windows event loop supports more concurrent connections [bug-id #59].

2.5.1 -> 2.5.2

• Windows build scripts reworked.
• Filters can be Windows PowerShell .ps1 scripts.
• Fix for client protocol [bug-id #57].

2.5 -> 2.5.1

• Filters can control the SMTP server's error response code.
• Proxying with --immediate passes back SMTP reponses more faithfully.
• The --disable-admin build-time configure option is restored.
• New smtp disable admin command to disable new SMTP sessions.
• Fewer Windows handles inherited by filter programs [bug-id #55].
• Fix for --dnsbl option parsing.

2.4 -> 2.5

• Multiple configurations in one process.
• SMTP PIPELINING (RFC-2920).
• SMTP CHUNKING/8BITMIME 'BDAT' extension (RFC-3030), disabled by default.
• SMTP SMTPUTF8 extension (RFC-6531), disabled by default.
• No 7-bit/8-bit check on received message content (see NEWS file).
• New built-in filters: deliver:, split:, copy:, mx:, msgid:.
• New built-in address verifier: account:
• No .local files (see NEWS file).
• PAM authentication is now enabled with --server-auth=pam: not /pam.
• Client authentication details can be given directly from the command-line.
• Multiple client authentication secrets, selected by a new envelope field.
• Main binary can act as a simple submission tool (configure --enable-submission).

2.3 -> 2.4

• Multiple --filter and --client-filter options allowed.
• TLS key and certificate files can be specified separately.
• Finer control when using --anonymous (eg. --anonymous=server).
• The auth-config options can distinguish between TLS and non-TLS authentication.
• Hourly log file rotation using %h (eg. --log-file=log.%d.%h).
• Listening file descriptors can be inherited from the parent process (see --interface).
• Listening ports on Windows use exclusive binding.
• The Linux event loop uses epoll by default rather than select.
• Some support for message routing (see NEWS).
• Fix of error handling in network client filters (--client-filter=net:...) [bug-id #50].

2.2 -> 2.3

• Unix domain sockets supported (eg. --interface=/tmp/smtp.s).
• Windows event log not used for verbose logging (prefer --log-file).
• New admin forward command to trigger forwarding without waiting.
• Optional base64 encoding of passwords in secrets files (plain:b).
• Support for MbedTLS version 3.

2.1 -> 2.2

• Connections from IPv4 'private use' addresses are allowed by default (see --remote-clients).
• Interface names can be used with --interface (eg. --interface=eth0).
• New --server-tls-connection option for server-side implicit TLS.
• New --forward-to-some option to permit some message recipients to be rejected.
• New --log-address option to aid adaptive firewalling.
• Dynamic log file rolling when using --log-file=%d.
• Choice of syslog 'facility' on Linux with --syslog=local0 etc.
• Pipelined SMTP QUIT commands sent by broken clients are tolerated.
• Better handling of overly-verbose or unkillable --filter scripts.
• Optional epoll event loop on Linux (configure --enable-epoll).
• Some internationalisation support (see NEWS file).
• Support for Windows XP restored when built with mingw-w64.
• C++ 2011 compiler is required.

2.0.1 -> 2.1

• Backwards compatibility features for 1.9-to-2.0 transition removed.
• Better handling of too-many-connections on Windows.
• New --idle-timeout option for server-side connections.
• Support for RFC-5782 DNSBL blocking (--dnsbl).
• Filter scripts are given the path of the envelope file in argv2.
• Message files can be edited by --client-filter scripts.
• Better support for CRAM-SHAx authentication.
• New --client-auth-config and --server-auth-config options.
• New --show option on windows to better control the user interface style.
• The --pop option always requires --pop-auth.
• No message is spooled if all its envelope recipients are local-mailboxes.
• TLS cipher name added to Received line as per RFC-8314 4.3.
• Certificate contents are not logged.
• Timestamp parts of spool filenames no longer limited to six digits.

2.0 -> 2.0.1

• Make PLAIN client authentication work against servers with broken 334 responses.

1.9.2 -> 2.0

• Improved IPv6 support, with IPv4 and IPv6 used independently at run-time (see --interface).
• Server process is not blocked during --filter or --address-verifier execution, if multi-threaded.
• Support for the mbedTLS TLS library as an alternative to OpenSSL (configure --with-mbedtls).
• TLS server certificates specified with new --server-tls-certificate option, not --server-tls.
• TLS servers enable client certificate verification with --server-tls-verify, not --tls-config.
• TLS clients can verify server certificates with --client-tls-verify and --client-tls-verify-name.
• The --tls-config option works differently (see NEWS file).
• New --client-tls-server-name option for server name identification (SNI).
• New --client-tls-required option to force client connections to use TLS.
• New --server-tls-required option to force remote SMTP clients to use STARTTLS.
• New --forward-on-disconnect option replaces --poll=0.
• The --anonymous option now suppresses the Received line, whatever the --domain.
• The second field in the secrets file indicates the password encoding, not AUTH mechanism.
• The --verifier option is now --address-verifier, with simplified command-line parameters.
• Command-line file paths can use @app as a prefix to be relative to the executable directory.
• Command-line file paths can be relative to the startup cwd even when daemonised.
• Filter exit codes between 104 and 107 are interpreted differently (see NEWS file).
• Message rejection reasons passed back to the submitting SMTP client are much less verbose.
• Forwarding events are queued up if the forwarding client is still busy from last time.
• The bind address for outgoing connections is no longer taken from first unqualified --interface address [bug-id #27].
• The SMTP client protocol tries more than one authentication mechanism.
• Some support for XOAUTH2 client-side authentication.
• Client protocol sends QUIT with a socket shutdown().
• The Windows commdlg list-view widget is used for the server status pages.
• The Windows connection-lookup feature is withdrawn (--peer-lookup).
• Several build-time configure options like --disable-pop are withdrawn.
• C++ 2011 is preferred, and required for multi-threading.
• Support for very old versions of Windows is dropped.

1.9.1 -> 1.9.2

• Fixed a leak in the event-loop garbage collection.
• A local hostname that fails to resolve is not an error.
• A warning is emitted if there is more than one client authentication secret.
• Multiple --interface options are allowed separately on the command-line.
• Added a new --client-interface option.
• The Received line is formatted as per RFC-3848 (with ESMTPSA).
• The LOGIN and PLAIN mechanisms in the secrets file are now equivalent.
• The Windows service wrapper can use a configuration file to locate the startup batch file.
• Simplified the implementation of the GUI installation program.
• Reworded the read error: disconnected log message.
• Less verbose logging of no more messages to send.
• Qt4 or Qt5 selected by the configure script.
• Improved the RPM spec file.

1.9 -> 1.9.1

• Updated OpenSSL from 1.0.1e to 1.0.1g in the Windows build.

1.8.2 -> 1.9

• Added negotiated TLS/SSL for POP (ie. STLS).
• The first two fields in the secrets files are reordered (with backwards compatibility).
• Added Linux PAM authentication (configure --with-pam and then --server-auth=/pam).
• Optional protocol-specific --interface qualifiers, eg. --interface smtp=127.0.0.1,pop=192.168.1.1.
• Outgoing client connection bound with the first --interface or --interface client=... address.
• Support for SMTP-over-TLS on outgoing client connection (--client-tls-connection) (cf. STARTTLS)
• Support for SOCKS 4a on outgoing client connection, eg. --forward-to example.com:25@127.0.0.1:9050.
• TLS configuration options (--tls-config=...) for SSLv2/3 fallback etc.
• No Received line added if --anonymous and an empty --domain name.
• Error text for all recipients rejected is now more accurately one or more recipients rejected.
• New behaviour for --client-filter exit values of 100 and over.
• New commands on the admin interface, failures and unfail-all.
• Shorter descriptions in the usage help unless --verbose.
• New default spool directory location on windows, now under system32.
• Windows project files for MSVC 2012 included.
• Removed support for Windows NT and Windows 9x.
• Better support for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• Removed Windows --icon option.
• Removed --enable-fhs option for configure (see INSTALL document for equivalent usage).
• Added --log-file option to redirect stderr.
• Added Windows --peer-lookup option.
• Fix for MD5 code in 64-bit builds.

1.8.1 -> 1.8.2

• Fix namespaces for gcc 3.4.

1.8 -> 1.8.1

• Changed the definition of --as-proxy to use --poll 0 rather than --immediate [bug-id 1961652].
• Fixed stalling bug when using server-side TLS/SSL (--server-tls) [bug-id 1961655].
• Improved Debian packaging for Linux (make deb).

1.7 -> 1.8

• Speed optimisations (as identified by KCachegrind/valgrind in KDevelop).
• Build-time size optimisations (eg. ./configure --disable-exec --enable-small-exceptions ...).
• Build-time options to reduce runtime library dependencies (eg. ./configure --disable-dns --disable-identity).
• New switch to limit the size of submitted messages (--size).
• New semantics for --poll 0, providing a good alternative to --immediate when proxying.
• SMTP client protocol emits a RSET after a rejected recipient as a workround for broken server protocols.
• SMTP client protocol continues if the server advertises AUTH but the client has no authentication secrets.
• When a message cannot be forwarded the offending SMTP protocol response number, if any, is put in the envelope file.
• A warning is printed if logging is requested but both stderr and syslog are disabled.
• A cross-compiling toolchain builder script added for running on mips-based routers (extra/mips).
• New example scripts for SMTP multicasting and editing envelope files.
• Improved native support for Mac OS X (10.5) with graphical installation from disk image.
• Compatibility with gcc 2.95 restored.

1.6 -> 1.7

• TLS/SSL support for SMTP using OpenSSL (./configure --with-openssl with --client-tls and --server-tls).
• Authentication mechanism PLAIN added.
• Some tightening up of the SMTP server protocol.
• Windows service wrapper has an --uninstall option.
• Windows installation GUI uninstalls the service before reinstalling it.

1.5 -> 1.6

• GPLv3 licence (see http://gplv3.fsf.org).
• New --prompt-timeout switch for the timeout when waiting for the initial 220 prompt from the SMTP server.
• Fix for flow-control assertion error when the POP server sends a very long list of spooled messages.
• Wildcard matching for trusted IP addresses in the authentication secrets file can now use CIDR notation.
• More fine-grained switching of effective user-id to read files and directories when running as root.
• Fewer new client connections when proxying.
• The server drops the connection if a remote SMTP client causes too many protocol errors.
• More complete implementation of --hidden on Windows.
• Scanner switch (--scanner) replaced by a more general --filter and --client-filter switch syntax.
• Support for address verification (--verifier) over the network.
• Better support for running as a Windows service (emailrelay-service --install).
• Utility filter program emailrelay-filter-copy exits with 100 if it deletes the envelope file.
• Windows cscript.exe wrapper is added automatically to non-bat/exe --filter command-lines.
• Installation GUI makes backups of the files it edits and preserves authentication secrets.
• Installation GUI can install init.d links.
• Experimental SpamAssassin spamc/spamd protocol support.
• Acceptance tests added to the distribution.

1.4 -> 1.5

• New installation and configuration GUI using TrollTech Qt 4.x (./configure --enable-gui)
• Default address verifier accepts all addresses as valid and never treats them as local mailboxes.
• Fix for server exit bug when failing to send data down a newly accepted connection.
• Spooled content files can be left in the parent directory to save diskspace when using --pop-by-name.
• Client protocol improved for the case where there are no valid recipients.
• New --syslog switch to override --no-syslog.
• New --filter-timeout switch added.
• Support for --foo=bar switch syntax (ie. with =).
• Multiple listening interfaces allowed with a comma-separated --interface list.
• New --filter utility called emailrelay-filter-copy to support --pop-by-name.
• Documentation also created in docbook format (requires xmlto).
• Windows installation document revised.

1.3.3 -> 1.4

• POP3 server (enable with --pop, disable at build-time with ./configure --disable-pop).
• Fix for logging reentrancy bug (affects ./configure --enable-debug with --debug).
• Fix to ensure sockets are always non-blocking (affects --scanner).
• Allow --verifier scripts to reject addresses with a temporary 4xx error code.
• Automatic re-reading of secrets files.
• Write to the Windows event log even if no write access to the registry.
• Modification of set-group-id policy if not started as root.
• Better checking of spool directory access on startup.
• New emailrelay-submit.sh example script for submitting messages for --pop-by-name.
• The --dont-listen switch is now --no-smtp.
• Better IPv6 support (Linux only).

1.3.2 -> 1.3.3

• No bind() for outgoing connections [bug-id 1051689].
• Updated rpm spec file [bug-id 1224850].
• Fix for gcc3.4 compilation error in md5.cpp.
• Fix for glob()/size_t compilation warning.
• Documentation of auth switches corrected.
• State-machine template type declaration modernised, possibly breaking older compilers.

1.3.1 -> 1.3.2

• Fix for core dump when --client-filter pre-processing fails.
• Revised code structure to prepare for asynchronous pre-processing.
• Better diagnostics when pre-processor exec() fails.
• Better cleanup of empty and orphaned files.

1.3 -> 1.3.1

• Windows resource leak from CreateProcess() fixed.
• Windows dialog box double-close fix.
• Some documentation for the --scanner switch.
• New usage patterns section in the user guide.

1.2 -> 1.3

• Client protocol waits for a greeting from the server on startup [bug-id 842156].
• Fix for incorrect backslash normalisation on --verifier command-lines containing spaces [bug-id 890646].
• Verifier programs can now summarily abort a connection using an exit value of 100.
• New --anonymous switch that reduces information leakage to the SMTP client and disables VRFY.
• Better validation of MAIL-FROM and RCPT-TO formatting.
• Rewrite of low-level MD5 code.
• Performance tuning.
• Template emailrelay.conf gets installed in /etc.
• New switches for the configure script.
• More JavaScript example scripts.

1.1.2 -> 1.2

• The --filter and --verifier arguments interpreted as command-lines; spaces in executable paths now need escaping.
• The --interface switch applies to outgoing connections too.
• New --client-filter switch to do synchronous message processing before sending.
• Keeps authentication after a rset command.
• Fix for dangling reference bug, seen after quit command on Windows.
• JavaScript examples in the documentation.

1.1.1 -> 1.1.2

• Earlier check for un-bindable ports on startup, and later fork()ing [bug-id 776972].
• Resolved the file-descriptor kludge for --verifier on Windows.
• Less strict about failing eight bit messages sent to servers with no 8BITMIME extension.
• Supplementary group memberships revoked at startup if root or suid.
• Pre-processor (--filter) program's standard output searched for a failure reason string.
• Undocumented --scanner switch added for asynchronous processing by a separate network server.

1.1.0 -> 1.1.1

• Restored the fix for building with gcc2.96.
• Support for MinGW builds on Windows.
• More reasonable size of the --help --verbose message box on Windows.
• Windows --icon switch changed from -i to -c to avoid conflicting with --interface.
• Shows next server address correctly in the configuration report when using --forward-to.
• Fix for make install when man2html is not available.
• Updated init script.

1.0.2 -> 1.1.0

• In proxy mode unexpected client-side disconnects and timeouts do not leave .bad files [see also bug-id 659039].
• By default proxy mode does not interpret addresses for local delivery (--postmaster).
• Polling option added (--poll) to rescan the spool directory periodically.
• New special exit code (103) for the pre-processor to trigger immediate polling; 100 to 107 now reserved.
• Orphaned zero-length content files are deleted properly if the server-side dialogue is cut short.
• The --interface switch applies to the --admin interface too.
• Improved internal event architecture using slot/signal design pattern, and fewer singleton classes.
• Event notification available through the administration interface.
• New --hidden switch for Windows.
• Syslog output includes process-id.
• Support for Sun WorkShop 5.0 added.
• Documentation overhaul.

1.0.0 -> 1.0.2

• Support for trusted IP addresses, allowing certain clients to avoid authentication.
• Address verifier interface extended to include authentication information.
• New public mail relay section added to the user guide.
• Example verifier scripts etc. added to the reference guide.

1.0.0 -> 1.0.1

• In proxy mode unexpected client-side disconnects and timeouts result in .bad files [bug-id 659039].
• Require successful AUTH before MAIL FROM when using --server-auth.
• Better word-wrap on --help output.
• Use of RedHat's functions code, and support for chkconfig, added to the init.d script.
• Builds with gcc3.2 (1.0.0-pl5).
• Fix for files left as busy after a connection failure in proxy mode [bug-id 631032] (1.0.0-pl3/4/5).
• Trivial documentation fixes (1.0.0-pl3).
• Fix for the double-dot escape bug in the client protocol [bug-id 611624] (1.0.0-pl2).
• Fix build when using gcc2.96 rather than gcc2.95 (1.0.0-pl1).
• Fix default spool directory in example scripts (1.0.0-pl1).

0.9.9 -> 1.0.0

• Briefer --help output; works with --verbose.
• Option to listen on a specific network interface (--interface).
• Option for an external address verifier program (--verifier).
• Some Linux Standard Base stuff added to the init.d script.
• Pid files world-readable and deleted on abnormal termination.
• Compiles with gcc 3.0 and intel 6.0.
• Autoconf tweak for MacOS X.
• Corrected the Received: typo [bug-id 572236].
• EHLO response parsing is now case-insensitive [bug-id 561522].
• Fewer missing-secrets warnings [bug-id 564987].

0.9.8 -> 0.9.9

• More flexible logging options (--verbose and --debug work better).
• File Hierarchy Standard (FHS) option for configure (--enable-fhs).
• FHS-compatible RPMs.
• Spool files writeable by pre-processor when server started as root.
• Default directories in executables and scripts come from configure.
• The init.d script is renamed emailrelay (was emailrelay.sh).
• Man pages are gzipped when installed.
• Fix for access violation under Windows NT when client disconnects.
• Use of event log when compiled on Windows NT.
• Fix for info-after-flush bug when using the administration interface. [rc2]
• New resubmit script. [rc2]
• Submit utility works under Windows. [rc2]
• Improved Windows project files. [rc2]

0.9.7 -> 0.9.8

• Fix for running pre-processor (--filter) as root.
• Ignore bogus AUTH=LOGIN lines in EHLO response.
• Submit utility improved to work with mutt.
• Installation of submit man page.

0.9.6 -> 0.9.7

• CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism added.
• Revoke root permissions at start up, and reclaim them when needed.
• Allow mail pre-processing (--filter) when started as root.
• Domain-override switch (--domain) added.
• Non-privileged user switch (--user) added.
• Better handling of NarrowPipe exception (ie. 8-bit message to 7-bit server).
• Allow null return path in MAIL-FROM.
• Reject recipients which look like <user>@localhost (as used by fetchmail for local delivery).
• Treat recipients which look like postmaster@localhost or postmaster@<fqdn> as local postmaster.
• Optional timestamps on log output (--log-time).
• Fix EHLO to HELO fallback for 501/502 responses in client protocol.
• Submission utility emailrelay-submit added.
• HTML4.0 compliant HTML documentation, using CSS.

0.9.5 -> 0.9.6

• SMTP AUTHentication extension -- LOGIN mechanism only.
• Client-side protocol timeout.
• Client-side connection timeout.
• Preprocessor can cancel further message processing.
• Client's IP address recorded in envelope files.
• Multiple hard-coded listening addresses supported at compile-time.
• Fix for automatic reopening of stderr stream.

0.9.4 -> 0.9.5

Windows fixes and improvements...

• system-tray + dialog-box user interface
• fix for dropped connections
• fix for content file deletion
• fix for directory iterator

0.9.3 -> 0.9.4

• Fixed memory leak when no --log switch.
• Windows build is more gui and less command-line.
• Info command added to the administration interface.
• Doxygen files removed from binary RPM.

0.9.2 -> 0.9.3

• Proxy mode (--immediate and --as-proxy).
• Message pre-processing (--filter).
• Message store classes better separated using abstract interfaces.
• Improved notification script, with MIME encoding.
• Builds with old 2.91 version of gcc.

0.9.1 -> 0.9.2

• Better autoconf detection.
• Workround for FreeBSD uname() feature.
• Added missing .sh_ files to the distribution.
• Fixed a benign directory iterator bug.
• Use of gcc's exception header.

0.9 -> 0.9.1

• Improved documentation from doxygen.
• More complete use of namespaces.
• Experimental compile-time support for IPv6.